As remote work remains the norm for many people, organizations continue to seek out solutions to protect corporate data regardless of where employees are located and which devices they use. In particular, monitoring for potential data exposures can be a challenging task when employees or contractors use unmanaged devices …

Google Cloud has a longstanding commitment to partnering with the U.S. government, helping agencies modernize technology systems, and shaping new frontiers in service delivery and mission success. Since establishing Google Public Sector last year, we've witnessed an ever-growing demand for cloud services as agencies leverage AI for critical …

Over the past four years, I’ve traveled the world meeting with current and potential Google Cloud customers and listening to their thoughts about the cloud and its future. It’s my team’s job to turn those thoughts into reality. What I have consistently heard is that while …

Generative artificial intelligence has emerged as a disruptive technology that presents tremendous potential to revolutionize and transform the way we do business. It has the power to unlock opportunities for communities, companies, and countries around the world, bringing meaningful change that could improve billions of lives. The challenge is …

With a growing number of internet users and ever-more services moving online, the security, scam, and fraud landscape is rapidly changing. Governments and the private sector are investing to provide protection for their employees and the end-users of their services. The Government Technology Agency of Singapore and Google Cloud …

The bioeconomy, according to the Congressional Research Service, is “the share of the economy based on products, services, and processes derived from biological resources.” This sector is composed of a complex network of biomedical, bioindustrial, and agricultural domains. Work in this space ranges from biological research, to production and …

Changing the network security perspective In a data center, network security engineers tend to spend the bulk of their time managing individual devices: creating strong passwords and hardening configurations for networking devices and creating firewall rules for each endpoint. Since nothing is physical in the cloud networking world, the …

Software designed to cause harm has been described as a “virus” since the 1970s, and some have described hackers as the “ internet’s immune system.” While analogies framing cybersecurity in healthcare terminology have limits, we have seen over the decades an important and growing connection between cybersecurity and healthcare …

Today, we are thrilled to announce that GKE Enterprise, the premium edition of GKE, will be generally available on November 15, 2023. With GKE Enterprise, companies can increase development and deployment velocity across multiple teams, easily and securely run their most important business-critical workloads, and reduce total cost of …

Organizations within regulated industries must balance cloud benefits with potential security and regulatory concerns. These include strict requirements to audit and control the cloud provider, especially when it comes to accessing the organization’s data and workloads. At Google Cloud, we're focused on providing our customers many ways to …

The threat landscape is rapidly evolving, with data destruction attacks increasingly pervasive and more sophisticated than in years past. Today’s threat actors are constantly identifying new pathways to target data and to limit organizations’ ability to recover from attacks. Backups have long been the solution to rapid recovery …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2023. This month, David Stone and Anton Chuvakin, colleagues from our Office of the CISO, are talking about what security and business leaders need to know about securing our multicloud present and future. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the …

To address the chronic shortage of security talent, Google Cloud has introduced a new virtual, lab-based training for Security Command Center, our flagship cloud security solution. The new lab, Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center, has no security knowledge prerequisites and can be completed in just six …

Google’s infrastructure security teams continue to advance the state of the art in securing distributed systems. As the scale, capabilities, and geographical locations of our data centers and compute platforms grow, we continue to evolve the systems, controls, and technology used to secure them against external threats and …

It’s hard to imagine (or for some of us, remember) life without the internet. From work, to family, to leisure, the internet has become interwoven in the fabric of our routines. But what if all of that got cut off, suddenly and without warning? For many people around …

Cybersecurity requires continual vigilance, including using built-in protections and providing resources for changing security threats. In acknowledgment of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, now in its 20th year, we recently shared our progress across a number of security efforts, and announced a few new technologies that help us keep more people …

Google Cloud Firewall is a fully distributed, stateful inspection next-generation firewall that is built into our software-defined networking fabric and enforced for each workload. With Cloud Firewall, you can enable advanced network threat protection with operational simplicity at cloud scale. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability …

Power generation and distribution networks are essential to modern life and must keep pace with dramatically increasing demand for electricity. The Energy sector is uniquely critical because it enables all other critical infrastructure sectors. Without reliable and secure electricity networks, economies and communities cannot function. Cybersecurity is particularly important …

APIs provide direct access to application functionality and data, making them a powerful developer tool. Unfortunately, that also makes them a favorite target for threat actors. Proactively identifying API security threats is top of mind for 60% of IT leaders according to Google Cloud’s 2022 API Security Research …

Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amin Vahdat, VP/GM. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders, researchers, and pioneers in the open hardware industry. Partha served on the OCP Board …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2023. This month, I’ll be discussing the increasingly-important (and often undervalued) organizational skill of crisis communications — and how boards can help prepare their organizations for the inevitable. Effective crisis communications was a central pillar of our third Perspectives on …

October marks the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the perfect time to hold Google Cloud Security Talks, our quarterly digital event on all things security. On October 25, we’ll bring together experts from Google Cloud and the broader Google security community to share insights, best practices …

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets out specific requirements for businesses and organisations who are established in Europe or who serve users in Europe. It regulates how businesses can collect, use, and store personal data. At Google Cloud, we prioritise the security and privacy of your data, and …

A Zero Trust approach to security can help you safeguard your users, devices, and apps as well as protect your data against unauthorized access or exfiltration. As part of Google Cloud’s efforts to help organizations adopt Zero Trust, we designed our BeyondCorp Enterprise (BCE) solution to be an …

A number of Google services and Cloud customers have been targeted with a novel HTTP/2-based DDoS attack which peaked in August. These attacks were significantly larger than any previously-reported Layer 7 attacks, with the largest attack surpassing 398 million requests per second. The attacks were largely stopped at …